ATNF 2017/18 Annual Report

November 22, 2018

The Australia Telescope National Facility Annual Report for 2017/18 is now available on-line. Until 2016, Annual Reports were based on the calendar year: from 2017/18 the Reports are based on […]

Parkes UWL results – by Dick Manchester

November 21, 2018

The plot above represents the first fully calibrated results from National Facility scheduled observing time with the Ultra-Wideband Low (UWL) receiver at Parkes. The observations were made last week, on […]

WALLABY Early Science results – by Tristan Reynolds

November 20, 2018

Reynolds et al. have presented Widefield ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Blind Survey (WALLABY) early science results from the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) observations of the NGC 7162 galaxy […]

Investigations of methanol masers in NGC 4945 – by McCarthy et al.

November 19, 2018

McCarthy et al. have used the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) to conduct observations of the 36.2 GHz methanol transition towards the nearby active galaxy NGC 4945. These observations have […]

An MWA search for counterparts to ASKAP FRBs – by Sokolowski et al.

November 16, 2018

Sokolowski et al. have presented the results of a coordinated campaign conducted with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) to shadow fast radio bursts (FRBs) detected by the Australian Square Kilometre […]

Very Young, Massive Protostars in a Collapsing Molecular Cloud – by Pitts et al.

November 15, 2018

Pitts et al. have recently presented multi-wavelength data on the globally infalling molecular cloud/protostellar cluster BYF 73. These include new far-IR spectral line and continuum data from SOFIA’s Far Infrared […]

ATNF Colloquium – The IllustrisTNG Project

November 14, 2018

by Prof. Lars Hernquist (Harvard University) Abstract: In this talk, I will present an overview of recent progress in simulating galaxy formation on cosmological scales. In particular, we have performed […]

An 84 GHz methanol maser in NGC 253 – by McCarthy et al.

November 13, 2018

McCarthy et al. have investigated the central region of NGC 253 for the presence of 84.5 GHz methanol emission using the Australia Telescope Compact Array and have discovered only the […]

Big Bang Theory

November 12, 2018

Edwin Hubble is widely known for his 1929 discovery that the universe is expanding. However, two years earlier, Georges Lemaitre published similar conclusions in an obscure journal, the Annals of […]

A Parkes search for fuzzy dark matter – by Porayko et al.

November 9, 2018

It is widely accepted that dark matter contributes about a quarter of the critical mass-energy density in our Universe. The nature of dark matter is currently unknown, with the mass […]

3C 17: The Brightest Galaxy of a newly identified Cluster – by Juan Madrid

November 8, 2018

3C 17 is a broad-line radio galaxy that also shows strong indications of interaction with its environment. The kiloparsec-scale radio morphology of 3C 17 is dominated by a single-sided, dramatically […]

ATNF Colloquium – Hanbury Brown, Twiss and the experiment that shook physics

November 7, 2018

by Peter Tuthill (USyd) Abstract: The 1960’s ushered in a remarkable belle epoch for the University of Sydney’s School of Physics. Brokered by the indomitable Harry Messel, an experiment took […]